And that is how Dr. Drew Pinsky describes the traumas of Britney’s past. Some of the problems include her father’s substance abuse and a family history of mental imbalance, so the doctor explain how they may explain her current mental state
US: What in Britney Spears’ childhood led her to where she is now?
DP: It’s how her father treated her, it’s the divorce and it’s the genetics.
US: How would her father’s substance abuse affect Britney?
DP: At least 60% of addiction is accounted for on the basis of genetics. I’ve never treated an addict that didn’t have a family history of the disease. You have to inherit it from somewhere.
We know that she is a drug addict because she’s been admitted to a treatment center. You can’t be admitted unless you’ve met criteria for addiction.
US: A person can’t be accepted for post-partum depression?
DP: If you go to a psychiatric hospital for post-partum depression, you go to the psychiatric hospital, you don’t go to the chemical dependency program. She is a drug addict. It is an indisputable point.
And she has a parent with an addiction. Just by having a parent with addiction puts you at about a 50% risk for having your own addiction problem. But, just because you have a genetic heritage doesn’t mean you’re going to get an addiction. A childhood trauma, physical abuse, sexual abuse, abandonment, will also propel a person towards full-blown addiction.
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Of course she’s the new Michael Jackson, its what I’ve been saying for years!!! And except she treats her children way worse! MJ never got his shit taken from him.
I totally called it a while ago!!
The poor little rich girl… never lived a real life… all the money in the world won’t cure her of her deviate ways…
Addiction or not, mentally ill or not, she’s got one really big factor that just makes it all that much worse. She’s not very smart.
Abuse or mental issues, when your children are taken away that should be some kind of wake up call. She doesn’t want to change and loves living in Britneyland.
The only thing britney has in common with Micheal Jackson is, they are both amaizing pop superstars. she is a great person going through a rough patch, and there is no doubt in my mind it will only get better for her. You know how i know, because it’s BRITNEY B****!!!!!!!!! she fricken rox, i love her soooooooo much!
So, do you actually try to think with that brain or is it just to keep the wind from whistling through your ears?
Britney’s been a mess for years and years and YEARS. It’s not “a rough patch”. She’s dysfunctional trailer trash.
wow. She “fricken rox”? I guess if you consider marrying a man who had a pregnant girlfriend, buying your own engagment ring, going completely postal after he doesn’t want you back, flashing your crotch on purpose to the world, disowning your family, ignoring your children, checking in and out of rehab a few times, losing custody of your children, breaking the law, being babysat while you hae two days aloud with your children . . . .I could go on . . . a “rough patch” mmmmkay. The only thing rough is her appearence.
i was just saying in an earlier post that she needs to go and play in Neverland Ranch…..i love britney but she needs to get off drugs if she is on them.
I agree with you Andy. I actually feel sorry for both Michael Jackson & Brittany. (Particulary Michael). It must be hard living life with the world watching and judging your every move. In the case of Michael, well hes had it since he was five. No wonder they are messed up.
The whole interview they did with Dr Drew Pinsky is really interesting. This outtake is the boring stuff. Carolina it would be great if you could re post the whole article.
yawn… next…
MJ couldn’t help it - he has a skin disease and been getting nose jobs since the 70s and people never cared until his skin changed and his nose surgery became so apparent. Then the media started picking on him and the stupid public bought everything the tv and magazine said and didn’t know they were being lied to. Britney on the other hand is a true disaster with no explanation.
Unlike Michael, Britney could solve a lot of her problems by moving out of L.A.
A little privacy and holistic enviroment can do a person good. She could take one month and travel. Or go to college or rehab or something. Michael…… well Michael missed the boat years ago and can now only serve as a warning to the likes of Britney Spears. Hopefully she takes heed.
None of us really know what’s best for Britney, and to be quite frank it’s none of our business telling her what she should be doing. People don’t seem to get that we see very little of Britney, what we see of her is her walking to and from her car. Driving in her car. These last about 2 minutes each. And that’s like 5 times a week, so we have absoloutley no clue what she does in her spare time. She could be decorating, she could be playing the playstation. She could be on this site right now for all we know. Choosing not to believe everything you read does a lot of good. I used to believe absoloutley everything, but when things started to be proven years or weeks or months later that it never happened, i understand what this source is. I could be a source. The thing about her nana, so sad. But please, do you REALLY think that a rehability centre like that that you have to pay so much really cares what you want out of it? Any celeb could go in saying they had the flu and they’d get a room.
I don’t beleive everything but I do know and beleive this :
Britney Spears is a very ill and crazy soon-to-be 26 (or 27?) year-old. She also doesn’t think she has problems.
Look at the millions of retarded pictures + videos for evidence.
Maybe a combination of mentall illness and drugs? Doesn’t matter, Britney is wacko.
damn, if you look at it that way . . .what we see for those two minutes is dysfunctional and wrong imagine what is really going on. Wake up, no one is spinning this, they don’t need to. I don’t believe everything I read but did you ever notice that when the magazines hint at something, like a breakup for example, the celebs deny deny deny, then break up about 3 weeks later? (example: Brad and Angelina, Jessica and Nick they denied completely and it was all true). There have been plenty of examples. I guess they made up that whole thing with Britney driving with her son on her lap too, right? She said her son was in danger ha! They weren’t shooting missles at her, it was pictures. It was much more dangerous to have him rding on her lap. Adam, I’m sure you wish she was reading you defend her on that other blog, but she is too busy buying frappachinos and ignoring her kids.
Oh man! I was really praying she would be reading my posts. Thanks for putting me back into perspective…
No but seriosuly, the magazines can write ANYTHING they want. I know this, just watch a british interview with a really high profile celebrity and you’ll understand. They ask the celeb questions like “did youslap a waiter” or “are you buying an island” and they laugh and say it’s not true. I don’t think i’m at all foolish for believing a person over thhe magazine that writes about them. There has ALWAYS been gossip that so-and-so will break up, and they do eventually, but it’s like 3 years after they first reported it lol so that doesn’t count.
(are brad and angelina seperated lol? i cant stand brad TEAM ANISTON)
First of all, to clarify, I was saying that Brad and Angelina denied they were together when in fact, they were.
Now, just to address your ignorance: did they make up that her driving with her child, when she hit and run a car, running a red light? No, they were right before our eyes. I guess all the stuff about her drug use and neglecting her children is fake too even though there are countless witnesses to it AND the court deemed it so that she no longer has custody of her kids (unless she is babysat with them). No, those things are not made up. You can’t make up seeing her actions:when Jayden was an infant and she was out everynight where most mothers are sleep deprived from taking care of an infant, she was sleep deprived from being out with Paris Hilton ( I can attest because I was breastfeeding my daughter in a stupor reading the blogs every morning) . . . my daughter and Jayden are the same age. It wasn’t made up that she got together with a man who had a pregnant girlfriend and then on Matt Laur used the excuse that she found out about her a month after they got together (giving her ample time to kick him to the curb. Lastly, there is NO making up her nasty weave, dirty clothes, and overall nasty appearence. Try again.
And the only thing similar is that Britney and Micheal are the two biggest superstars of their time, who both fell from grace. And really, Micheal did things with that child Britney never would, so it is disgusting and ignorant to compare the two.
Bastards! Think they can condense a persons life into statistics and theories. Well leave people alone. It’s Brittany’s business not ours! How are people suppose to live their own God damn lives?!
She could live her own life by not calling the papz to let them know her itenerary or not calling hotels to see if there is anything going on and showing up if there is. If she wasn’t pasted on every blog site on a daily basis, that would kill her. She wants us in her business. She has no star quality so this is her way to stay in the press, her moronic behavior.
LEAVE BRITTANY ALONG GOSH!!!!!!!!!!! GIVE HER A BRAKE YEAH SO SHE SCREWED HER LIFE UP BUT SHE SI TRYING TO GTE IT BACK SON TRACK SO JUST PLZ LEAVE HER ALONG FOR ONCE!!!!!!!!! IF U WERE HER WOULD U LIKE EVERYONE TALKING TRASH ABOUT YOU THAT WOULD BE A NO PROBLEY A HECK NO SO JUST THINK ABOUT THAT AND LEAVE HER ALONG AND GIVE HER A BRAKE!!!!!!!!!
The commish has given her many breaks, she doesn’t take what her life has become seriously. Her fans have given her support, yet she gives a half asses performance at the VMA’s. Kevin told her to get help and go to rehab or he would take the kids, she didn’t listen then either. Should we keep giving her chances until she does serious harm to her children? I could care less what she does to herself, but when it involves two innocent children, her own no less, then all bets are off no more chnaces.
and i dont care about michael jackson but u could give brittany spears a brake but if i could i would like to hurt michael jackson he should be dead!!!!!! he is a bastard!!!!! he is so stuiped, ugly,player,a basterd
English please.
I think you need a reality check. The picture above, that’s not the Britney of today. Then she was a powerful, strong, indepentent, confident young woman. Today, you see a nasty, self centered, heartless, attention seeking, insecure, empty soul.
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good article
I don’t think Britney has mental issues, or is suffering from depression. This is the same person she has always been. What you see before you today is probably what she has always been, we just didn’t see it because of her management team. Up until she fired her manager we all saw the “marketable” version of Britney. This is a spoiled brat having a very public tantrum, she isn’t going to have Kevin, the commish, or her parents tell her what to do or how to raise her children.
OMG People… Britney and Micheal Hello are both amaizinf fricken superstars, and I wish them both the absolute best in life…they deserve it. IT’s Britney BITCH…She rox, Micheal..innocent. I love them both.
OMG People… Britney and Micheal Hello are both amaizing fricken superstars, and I wish them both the absolute best in life…they deserve it. IT’s Britney BITCH…She rox, Micheal..innocent. I love them both.
Jammie Spears had a substance abuse problem? I never knew that. You learn something everyday.
Does that mean she’s going to try to change into a black woman?I remember a black kid when they were the jackson 5 and now he’s taken some chemicals and looks more or less white.He looks weird I thought what planet is he from, he doesn’t look black he don’t look white.
A lot of child stars have similar stories, she The guardian even compared her to elvis presley,I don’t think he was a child star, he is still the king and shent nothin but a hounddog.
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